Off topic but it wasn't. Marx made up his nonsense while living in Victorian Britain, which was a constitutional monarchy. It had an empire, but it wasn't "nationalist" in the sense of modern fascism and had multi party elections. Fascism didn't exist as a relevant idea in politics until Mussolini, a former socialist who had become disillusioned with it, took power in the early 1920s after communists had caused unrest in the industrial areas of northern Italy. Fascism was a reaction against Soviet Communism in Europe offering an alternative totalitarian ideology that still allowed private property, but the communists were the original 20th century totalitarians. Before that, European governments were all monarchies (whether constitutional like the UK or absolute like Russia) or relatively liberal republics like France.
Looking at Soviet history specifically, capitalists and monarchists (White Russians) were the original enemies of the state until Germany attacked in 1941. Up to that point, the USSR was willing to cooperate and even sign a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. Only after that did fascists become the ultimate enemy.
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